Big Kim Woof-Woof Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 Hearty salutations to hobby fans big and small (and those in between)! Welcome to the Painting Contract for August 2024. The rules, as always, are: - Each month you post an amount of models that you agree to try to paint/build/convert/sculpt. This can be models or terrain for Age of Sigmar, Warcry, Blood Bowl, Underworlds, The Old World, or any other Warhammer game. - At the end of the month the Contract closes and you can then post your progress images to be critiqued, shared, and boasted about. It's a great way to get involved in the community and to get inspiration. And..... GO! Can't wait to see what you all get up to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painbringer Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 (edited) I am continuing work on various terrain pieces. Here you can see Sacrificial Rocks from GF9, but I have given them a refresh (repainted the bases, added the moss effect and added more highlights on the upper half of the monoliths): Edited August 8 by Painbringer 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Kim Woof-Woof Posted August 4 Author Share Posted August 4 I'm determined to put in some decent hours on Glutos. He's been on the backburner for most of the year, but this month he's the star feature. Mainly because I've finally worked out a technique for marble that I'm happy with... If I find myself needing a break from Glutos, I've got the Thricefold Discord to fall back on. Or just some Daemonettes. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitGas Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 I'm currently working on hills outta styrodur cause my inital idea with taking rock molds became too heavy. Takes me ages but they weigh basically nothing. Grmph. I figure I'll bombard it with pigments now to give it that extra edge but I thought I'd post something again. I made em pretty small cause else they suck ingame - oh and I gotta add some dead gras here and there. Sorry, I only build unhappy places. If my minis don't get a collective depression I'm not happy. Once I'm done (planning to do two more), I'll try my hand at making swamps. 11 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flippy Posted August 6 Share Posted August 6 With the very positive Spearhead experience, I will now finish the Carnosaur and then most likely some additional terrain. After that it's either IDK Spearhed (I've already done some models for Warcry warband) or... FEC. Their Spearhead box looks like a nice and reasonably easy painting project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitGas Posted August 7 Share Posted August 7 the pigments definitely made it better. Also introduced some more blues into the shadows of the rocks (thinking of Elden Ring), cause I like that videogame-esque look, not sure it‘s really visible in those pics without natural light but whatever, it‘s not that interesting to anyone but me anyways. 😂 Anyways, things I‘ve learned: You can carve great rockfaces by using a hot tool and putting aluminium foil around around - you‘d need a filter mask though as those vapors are definitely all kinds of bad. And it takes a lot of time. You could also fill out rockfaces with sculptamold for very lightweight casts. I‘ve tried it when I was almost done with this one but I might mix those casts for the other two hills I‘ll do. get the Vallejo pigment binder if you got an airbrush. Normal brush application is a big fat meh. Airbrushs great and really preserves the dusty look and barely changes the color, if at all. Might add some more pigments once the glue under the tufts had more time to dry. But that‘s basically not really needed. Usually I‘m not happy with my stuff but these are the exception. I might make the border of the piece a bit more sloped in some parts (thinking by using magic sculpt as that shouldn‘t break easily) but I can do that whenever. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painbringer Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 (edited) I have done a great deal of work on Lord-Arcanum yesterday. Recently, a friend of mine has given me his painted Stormcast and now I’m painting Lord-Arcanum to match that colour scheme. There’s still work to do, but most of the model is done: Edited August 8 by Painbringer 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyRyan Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 I started 5 Liberators and the new Knight Somethingorother from the Skaventide box last month, I’m hoping to finish them and get started on maybe the Prosecutors from the same box this month. As a side project, I picked up Venom from the Marvel miniatures game - my kids think he’s awesome so I want to get him painted up too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempus Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 Finally started work on Abraxia and the 3 Varanguard. I hope to have them done by end of the month. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vasshpit Posted August 8 Share Posted August 8 8 hours ago, Tempus said: Finally started work on Abraxia and the 3 Varanguard. I hope to have them done by end of the month. Do you by chance have any ironjawz model you could do a side by side of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempus Posted August 9 Share Posted August 9 9 hours ago, Vasshpit said: Do you by chance have any ironjawz model you could do a side by side of? Hope these are clear enough. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Arthur Hotep Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 I have been kind of busy with work and other things recently. I finally got around to buying Malign Sorcery now that endless spells are free. Giving them some low-effort paint jobs to get them table ready quickly: Sometimes it's nice to have models on the painting table that you can just drybrush and that will still look good. 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Kim Woof-Woof Posted August 12 Author Share Posted August 12 1 hour ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said: I have been kind of busy with work and other things recently. I finally got around to buying Malign Sorcery now that endless spells are free. Giving them some low-effort paint jobs to get them table ready quickly: Sometimes it's nice to have models on the painting table that you can just drybrush and that will still look good. Plus a really old pot of... I'm guessing... Snakebite Leather? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Arthur Hotep Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 3 minutes ago, Big Kim Woof-Woof said: Plus a really old pot of... I'm guessing... Snakebite Leather? Yeah, I had it out because someone in my local painting group took a picture of an old out of production foundation paint like this one: So of course I had to one-up them I recently refilled a bottle of blue ink that was running out with blue Citadel wash from the same time period. All the Citadel paints I still have from an old starter set that are in this style of paint pot are still usable 20+ years later. The regular acrylics seem to have a weird medium because they have a sort of chemical smell, but they work just fine. Terrible coverage though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitGas Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 2 hours ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said: Yeah, I had it out because someone in my local painting group took a picture of an old out of production foundation paint like this one: So of course I had to one-up them I recently refilled a bottle of blue ink that was running out with blue Citadel wash from the same time period. All the Citadel paints I still have from an old starter set that are in this style of paint pot are still usable 20+ years later. The regular acrylics seem to have a weird medium because they have a sort of chemical smell, but they work just fine. Terrible coverage though. The old Blood Red was a glaze, you can‘t convince me otherwise! Took 20 thin layers to cover over black.😂 But at least those pots never dried out. Still the best pots GW ever had. That‘s actually kinda sad! 😅 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Arthur Hotep Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 3 minutes ago, MitGas said: The old Blood Red was a glaze, you can‘t convince me otherwise! Took 20 thin layers to cover over black.😂 But at least those pots never dried out. Still the best pots GW ever had. That‘s actually kinda sad! 😅 I have an old pot of Ruby Red like this one: It is still really nice and vibrant, but the consistency and coverage is closer to the vallejo red ink I use than a regular acrylic paint. I think the red contrast paint I have actually has better coverage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitGas Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 15 minutes ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said: I have an old pot of Ruby Red like this one: It is still really nice and vibrant, but the consistency and coverage is closer to the vallejo red ink I use than a regular acrylic paint. I think the red contrast paint I have actually has better coverage. Yeah, those paints were my first ones as well. I can still remember the struggle sometimes. Still… they do have a place in my heart. Thanks for sharing! I just find it impressive that these still work. I dunno when exactly I got rid of my last one of these but it must‘ve been around 3 years. 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Under the Mountain Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 My wife and I decided to build brand new armies from scratch these last few weeks. Stormcast for her (her first army) and Ironjawz for me. We both got the big centerpiece models. I also got a big pig and a couple other heroes. Goal is to get at least most of it painted this month. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThalmorRepresentative Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 (edited) Working on the 40k terrain! Got some games of AoS in with the lumineth :). \ Edited August 14 by ThalmorRepresentative 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Kim Woof-Woof Posted August 15 Author Share Posted August 15 I'm shifting my goalposts for the month. I'm packing Glutos away in a 'too hard' box for now. I want to get him just right, and I don't have the time nor the energy to spend right now, unfortunately. Instead I'll be devoting the rest of the month painting a 'fun' model or two. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Arthur Hotep Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 Working on this lady knight from Conquest for a painting competition at my store. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painbringer Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 (edited) There are a few more details I need to address, but Lord-Arcanum is mosy finished: Edited August 18 by Painbringer 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Arthur Hotep Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 5 minutes ago, Painbringer said: There are a few mire details I need to address, but Lord-Arcanum is mosy finished: Nice paint job. The Arcanum is still a really cool model. A little tip for avoiding those lines when using a texture roller: Take a bit of balled-up aluminium foil and gently roll it over your modeling putty aftet using the texture roller. It gets rid of the lines and leaves a pretty convincing rock texture instead. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Under the Mountain Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 My work so far. Been a long time since I’ve painted anything without a beard and been really enjoying it so far. Still have a lot of touching up to do this week. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThalmorRepresentative Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 (edited) Working on terrain and got 3 stoneguard to a good point. 17 more to work on next. Edited August 18 by ThalmorRepresentative 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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